"The model administration" : an oration delivered before the Whig citizens of Philadelphia on the twenty-second of February, 1844 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Agricultural enquiries on plaister of Paris : Also, facts, observations and conjectures on that subtance [sic], when applied as manure. : Collected, chiefly from the practice of farmers in Pennsylvania, and published as much with a view to invite, as to give information. /

Errata statements, p. [112] and [114].

Agricultural grasses of U.S.; also chemical composition of American grasses [microform].

Includes index.

The milk supply of Chicago and Washington /

"September 28, 1911."

A Virginia cavalier,

Mode of access: Internet.

Guy T. Helvering, Commissioner and others Defendants-Appellees-Petitioners v. George P. Davis, Plaintiff-Appellant-Respondent : brief for Plaintiff-Appellant-Respondent : Edward F. McClennen, Jacob J. Kaplan for the respondent.

At head of title: Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1936, no. 910.

Resolution of inquiry requesting the President of the United States to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents in his possession relating to the anticipated effects of climate change on the coastal regions of the United States : adverse report, together with minority views (to accompany H. Res. 515).

"November 15, 2005."

Lumber production in the United States, 1799-1946 /

Cover title.

Meeting of directors of meteorological services of western hemisphere countries : hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, first session, on R.J. res. 191, a joint resolution to authorize the President of the United States to invite the governments of the countries of the western hemisphere to participate in a meeting of the national directors of the meteorological services of those countries, to be held in the United States as soon as practicable in 1941 or 1942 : to invite regional commissions III and IV of the International Meteorological Organization to meet concurrently therewith, and to authorize an appropriation for the expenses of organizing and holding such meetings ..

Mode of access: Internet.

Centennial address : delivered at Trenton, N.J., Feb. 22, 1832 /

Half-title.

Elements of useful knowledge. containing a historical and geographical account of the United States /

Includes (p. 207-224): The farewell address of George Washington.

Poems of the Christian year,

Mode of access: Internet.

The federal government : a model employer or a work in progress? : perspectives from 25 years of the Merit Principles Survey : a report to the President and the Congress of the United States /

"September 2008"

Introduction to special issue on what criminology can say about the war on terror

On 20 September 2001, the former US President, George W. Bush, declared what is now widely, and arguably infamously, known as a ‘war on terror’. In response to the fatal 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, DC, President Bush identified the US military response as having far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. It was, he argued, ‘our war on terror’ that began ‘with al Qaeda, but … it will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated’ (CNN 2001). This was to be a war that would, in the words of former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, seek to eliminate a threat that was ‘aimed at the whole democratic world’ (Blair 2001). Blair claimed that this threat is of such magnitude that unprecedented measures would need to be taken to uphold freedom and security. Blair would later admit that it was a war that ‘divided the country’ and was based on evidence ‘about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong’ (Blair 2004). The failures of intelligence ushered in new political rhetoric in the form of ‘trust me’ because ‘instinct is no science’ (Blair 2004). The war on terror has been one of the most significant international events in the past three decades, alongside the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the unification of Europe and the marketization of the People's Republic of China. Yet, unlike the other events, it will not be remembered for advancing democracy or sovereignty, but for the conviction politics of particular politicians who chose to dispense with international law and custom in pursuit of personal instincts that proved fatal. Since the invasions of Afghanistan in October 2001 and …

Uriah P. Levy collection undated, 1787-1948, 1959, 1961, 1985, 2005.

Contains the notebook and correspondence of Abram Kanof relating to the naval career and activities of Uriah P. Levy; the correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and a manuscript paper of Isaac Markens pertaining to the alleged claim that Levy was instrumental in abolishing flogging in the Navy; personal documents including a letter to Captain E.A.F. Lavalette concerning the behavior of officers under Levy's command as commodore of the Mediterranean fleet (1859), a photostatic copy of his will and the inventory of his estate (1862), and published material by and about Uriah Phillips Levy including a bound typewritten copy of "Record of Naval Court of Inquiry, 1857;" An essay on flogging in the Navy, 1849; Memorial of Uriah P. Levy, ... 1855; an original copy of a Manual of rules for men-of-war by Captain U.P. Levy, 1862; and Monticello and its preservation, since Jefferson's death, 1862-1902, by George Alfred Townsend. Also contains the halitza of Virginia Lopez Levy, widow of Uriah P. Levy, 1866, signed by J.J. Lyons; copies of letters of Michael Levy to Henry Deering and Dudley Woolridge, 1787-1788, and a published copy of The defense of Captain Jonas P. Levy. Gift, in part, of the Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundation, 1979 and of Herman Herst, Jr., 1987.